Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixteen weeks passed. The weather in The Bronx grew cold; the fondly expectant curators grew worried. At last they decided that they should wait no longer. Last week, working carefully with small trowels under the eyes of 50 newspaper reporters and photographers, they dug into the dirt to bare Penelope's secret. They found a network of burrows; they found Penelope. But they found no leafy nest -and no platykittens...
ARMY MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...
Gently Does It (by Janet Green) is distinctly English playvvriting, less distinctly any one kind of English play. Sufficient murder is contemplated and committed to label it a thriller, and its chief character is ruthless and psychotic enough to be a proper basis for thrills. But Edward Bare is so set on getting on in life through wealthy women that the play-all the more for being talky-seems less concerned with crime than mere careerism...
This was the second attempt at the mayor's office made by the one-time Eli publicity head. In 1951, when Celentano was re-elected by a bare margin of two votes, a Yale man commented. "It proves nothing except there are two more Italians than Yalies in New Haven...
Lydon came home from 21 months in the P.W. camps to find himself facing charges of "misbehaving before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice." Last week, in a bare, hot courtroom at Catterick barracks, Lydon heard combat officers debate his fate with civilian psychiatrists...